Sin City: The Hard Goodbye
The second Sin City movie is hitting theaters in less than a month
(finally), so I decided it was time to go back and revisit the comics.
And finally read the last volume, which has been sitting on my shelf for
who knows how long.
I saw the first Sin City movie my freshman year of college and very quickly became obsessed. Even with all the violence, I thought it was one of the prettiest movies I'd even seen. The use of color was amazing. And it really looked like a comic book up on the screen. I started buying the comics, and was excited to see just how closely the movie followed them.
The first one, The Hard Goodbye, follows a meathead named Marv on his quest for vengeance for a dead hooker named Goldie. This is made harder by the fact that everyone, from the cops to Goldie's twin sister, believes that Marv himself did it. But, as he puts it, Marv kills his way to the truth, discovering a cannibal with connections at the highest level of the church. Marv's quest ultimately changes nothing. Sure, he kills the guy who killed Goldie, but he's still convicted with her murder and sent to the chair.
Marv is an interesting character. Chivalrous is probably the perfect word to describe him. You can just see him riding around on a horse, killing dragons and thieves and rescuing damsels. Except for the fact that he was born in the 20th century and that kind of thing doesn't really hold anymore. He has a strict moral code, but he's also quick to resort to violence and torture, mostly because he enjoys them so much. He's fun to read about, but he's honestly a pretty gross dude. Neither hero nor anti-hero, Marv is really nothing more than a product of a society that cares about nothing but immediate gratification. As is everyone else in Sin City.
I saw the first Sin City movie my freshman year of college and very quickly became obsessed. Even with all the violence, I thought it was one of the prettiest movies I'd even seen. The use of color was amazing. And it really looked like a comic book up on the screen. I started buying the comics, and was excited to see just how closely the movie followed them.
The first one, The Hard Goodbye, follows a meathead named Marv on his quest for vengeance for a dead hooker named Goldie. This is made harder by the fact that everyone, from the cops to Goldie's twin sister, believes that Marv himself did it. But, as he puts it, Marv kills his way to the truth, discovering a cannibal with connections at the highest level of the church. Marv's quest ultimately changes nothing. Sure, he kills the guy who killed Goldie, but he's still convicted with her murder and sent to the chair.
Marv is an interesting character. Chivalrous is probably the perfect word to describe him. You can just see him riding around on a horse, killing dragons and thieves and rescuing damsels. Except for the fact that he was born in the 20th century and that kind of thing doesn't really hold anymore. He has a strict moral code, but he's also quick to resort to violence and torture, mostly because he enjoys them so much. He's fun to read about, but he's honestly a pretty gross dude. Neither hero nor anti-hero, Marv is really nothing more than a product of a society that cares about nothing but immediate gratification. As is everyone else in Sin City.
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